Any advantage to using LCD drivers

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I noticed when I got my VX922 that I could display windows at 1280@75hz and more importantly play games at 75hz. For me this means I don't need vsync in more demanding games. As soon as I installed the Viewsonic drivers, only 60hz is available by default, and games like Star Wars : EAW only let me display 1280@60hz whereas before I could pull of 75hz. I wonder why Viewsonic have done this as the tech doc's say the LCD supports 75hz. Anyway I uninstalled the drivers. I still use 60hz in windows and 75hz in games. Am I missing anything by not having the drivers installed ?

Oh..one more thing...everytime my system goes into suspend, when it comes back the monitor is sort of buzzing and any windows I open flicker a bit. Turning the screen on and off sorts it. I wonder what is causing this ? It happens with the drivers installed. HAve to figure out if this is causing it, or maybe it's my power management profile, which knocks off the screen after 30minutes, the HD after an hour, and then goes into sleep after 2 hours.
 
The manual says 60hz is recommended (gives best quality I think), but the specs say 75hz capable so I don't see how you could damage the monitor.
 
Thanks for the info Badass

<edit> The problem I have with 60hz is a lot of games go over 60fps and you get tearing, and vsync drops the framerate to 30fps to prevent this tearing when the game goes over 60fps. The only thing that I have found which helps is using tripple buffereing. On some games the framerate with vsync on only drops to 45fps. This is why I would much prefer to use 75hz as I would not bother with vsync then and chances of tearing are so much reduced </edit>
 
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Turns out it the pants Viewsonic drivers causing the buzzing when coming back from sleep mode. Not happening with the windows ones. Now to do some 75hz gaming to see if I end up with ghosting.
 
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